ripping kiss of the dragon problem

[ryutran18]

i tried to backup kiss of the dragon onto my harddrive with smartripper but when it gets to 45 or so percent there was a broken block. what does it mean. sould i use another ripper software or what?

[QT123]

I ripped Kiss of the Dragon no problem with SmartRipper... I beleive the issue may be the disc. (not positive tho)

Quentin

[ryutran18]

i ripped it again with DVDDecrypter and it worked. my question is now: why is kiss of the dragon so big. itz only 98 mins. when i tried to take just the main movie with one sound file nothing else, it was still too big. around 4.71 gb. i don't think it has angles.
can someone help me with this.

[QT123]

To get around that I opted to leave out the last chapter... (credits)

should fit then

[ryutran18]

i left out the last chapter and every sound file except one and itz still over. has anyone copy kiss of the dragon without re-mpeging it.

[bobeuchre]

i tried smart ripper, dvddecrypter, vstrip, internal routers, even tried to drag and drop onto hard drive
quit frankly the movie isnt worth it, i just kept tring cause i wanted to know how to do it incase a good movie came along with the same problem
it must be protected

[eatinsammiches]

most likely it was encoded at a HIGH bit rate


i've had movies like the goonies , only 90 minutes long but checked avg bitrate on it and it was over 7200 kbit/sec, the first thing i thought was how in the hell was an old movie like the goonies have a drasticly higher bitrate than movies like The Matrix and LOTR


which no matter what i ripped from it (as it only had 2 audio streams) still needed re-incoding to fit on 1 dvd-r

[DIggedy]

the first thing i thought was how in the hell was an old movie like the goonies have a drasticly higher bitrate than movies like The Matrix and LOTR


Because the cleaner the source material the easier it is to compress cleanly, and consequently wouldn't need as high a bitrate.
But also the age of the film has nothing to do with it, it would be the material itself that matters, eg a movie with lots of fast action and high detail such as The Matrix would require a higher bitrate to avoid artifacts than something like The Sixth Sense which features lots of static shots without much movement.
But if the source material features grain and other artifacts then a higher bitrate would generally be needed to prevent the encode from looking even worse.

[jams]

I've tried smartripper, vstrip, dvddecrypter and a couple others and it still doesn't make it past 43% (3rd vob).

[delly01]

You should try the DVD-drive of a friend or a different speed for the drive, if it can be switched with programs like cd-bremse or nero cdspeed.

Bye,

Detlev

[Antknee]

:) Just a tip, if you have problems ripping a movie, try to first "unlock" the VOB's or tracks of the movie by quickly skipping through the chapters using a player such as PowerDVD or some other MPEG2 player. Once the movie is played through the drive you'll be ripping from...you'll see the ripping program of your choice will rip with no problems.:D